Improvement in clothes-driers and ironing-boards



MARTIN POWER.

Improvementin Clothes Driers and Irdning Boards.

Patented Nov-"21, 1871-.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

MARTIN POWER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HENRYMOLAUGHLIN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS AND lRONlNG-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,127, dated November21, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVIARTIN POWER, a citizen of Ireland and a subjectof Great Britain, now

residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook and State of Illinois,have invented an Improved Ironing-Table and Clothes-Drier, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The present invention relates to an improved device to be used indoorsfor ironing and drying clothes; and its nature consists of a substantialframe, which supports a semi-disk for sustaining the arms of the drier,and to which a folding ironing-board is hinged. Said disk alsosupporting an upper removable drier, and the main frame supporting aflat-iron rack, as the whole is hereinafter fully described and shown.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective representation of my improvedironing-table and clothes-drier as when in position for ironing andholding clothes to be dried, Fig. 2, an elevation of the same, with theupper drier removed and the table folded down, as are also the arms aswhen the device is being set one side or stored away.

E represents the platform or lower part of the frame-Work, which is madeof wood or other suitable material, and supports a fiat-iron rack, F,which should be made of metal or some material which will not burn bythe heated irons. This platform also supports standards G, which sustaina semi-disk or platform, B, to which folding-arms J J J, &c., are hung,by means of slots L and a curved rod, V, the ends of the arms catchingunder the disk to hold them in horizontal positions, and the slots Lallowing the arms to be drawn out so as to loosen their hold on the diskwhen said arms are to fold down. This arrangement for attaching andfolding the arms, however, I do not claim to have invented, it havingbeen before used and known to the public. A represents a folding-leaf,which is hinged to part B, as shown at B, Fig. 2, and which is used asan ironing-board, its outer end being supported by means of folding-legsH, which are hinged to said leaf, as shown at P. 0 represents aremovable standard, which sits in a mortise made in the disk B andsupports an upper disk D, which is provided with arms I I I, &c.,arranged to swing in the same manner as the arms shown at J. The objectof the upper arms is to provide means for holding small articles, suchas collars, cuffs, socks, &c., which will not extend down so low as tointerfere with the articles hung on the arms J.

By the above means a very convenient household implement is provided atsmall cost, and one, when not in use, that can be so folded up as tooccupy but little room.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combination of the folding-board A, folding-legs H, flatiron rackF, and disk B, for supporting arms J, as set forth.

2. The combination of the upper disk D for supporting arms I, standard0, disk B, ironingboard A, folding-legs H, and flat-iron rack F, asshown and described.

MARTIN POWER.

Witnesses:

G. L. GHAPIN,

A. HAYWARD. (91)

